St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-10-09
FRANCES FUTURE.
The Chances for the Return of the
BOurbons to Power.


By Cable to the Globe.
PARIS, Oct. S.-The decision of the
French government to punish all mayors
who permitted the plaearding or distri-
button of COmte de Paris recent mani
festo within their respective districts, is
undoubtedly grave mistake. That the
French government will be within their
rights in so doing is undisputable and
the act of distributing OF placarding the
proclamation is without doubt technic-
ally reasonable, but whether the gov
eminent Will be wise in thus taking
notice of the circumstance is quite an
other matter. What the French rOyal-
lists want above all things is advertising,
and to make number of provincial
mayors martyrs i'll the COmte de Paris
cause is to give the royaliSts magnifi-
cent advertisement. The French gov
eminent would do well to leave the
Comte de Paris severely alone, other
wise there may be some remarkable
changes in the near future of French
and of European politics. The Comte
de Paris himself expects a violent
crisis" from which he thinks the mon
archy will emerge. This opinion,
which has considerable weight from
the fact that the comte is at once
one of the most capable and one of the
most interested observers of French af-
fairs, derives support from the opinion
of another observer, no less capable.
and though in a different way, also
deeply interested. Prince Bismarck. in
an article recently published in the
North German Gazette, and devoted
mainly to abuse of Prince Ferdinand of
COburg for remaining in Bulgaria, wrote
that that princes action acquired
A LOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE
only if interpreted as piece of Orle an
iSt policy. 1.-The interests of the house
of Orleans" he continues, ''are of
kind that will not be permitted by the
continuance of European peace. An
European war, however and wherever
it might arise, might make room for
change of conditions in France" 1t is,
of course, quite impossible for others to
guess what prompted Bismarck to pen
these sentences. He may have meant
merely to strengthen the hands of th e
present French cabinet by holding be-
fore them the DOGGY of an OrleaniSt sue
ceSSlOn, but the Comte de Paris, the
eldest grandson of Louis Philippe, is
first consin to Prince Ferdinand, whose
mother, the Princess Clementine, is the
late kings daughter. Possibly Prince
Bismarck, who knows in general the
way to get at other peoples
secrets,i has had a hint of the
by the ladies of the houses of
France. The Comte de Paris himself is
probably the most estimable of pre-
tenders. He seems to unite in himself
the good qualities of both of the royal
families of which he is the head. His
personal character has none of the awk-
wardness that made Louis Philippe
seem at times hypocritical and danger
Gus. He is without the narrow-minded-
ness of Louis XVIII, and of the latter
of whom it was said that he had learned
nothing and forgotten nothing from the
calamities of exile. Representing at
once the high monarchical traditions of
the BOurbOnS and the dOctrinaire con-
Comte de Paris, by his training and
habits of thought. one of the most lib
eral of men. He was a boy of ten when
the Revolution of 1913 drove his grand
father from the throne, and was edu-
Gated in Germany and England, and
when young man served i'll the United
States army. When the relations of
France with the United States caused
him to leave that service and return to
Europe, he devoted much time and en-
orgy to the study of the social and eco
nOmic conditions of the English working
classes. During the best years of his
maturity he was at work on 1his"History
of the American Civil War;" book
which is the standard for its
BREADTH OF SYMPATHY
with popular institutions, and which
breatheS on every page the spirit of lib
erty. The historian of the civil war is in
facta Republican with an eye wide open
to the weaknesses of the Republican
form of government. AS Frenchman he
is like all other Frenchmen, disheartened
by the failure of successive attempts to
form a strong government under par
liamentary conditions. AS the head of
the royal house of France he is bound to
believe that a legitimate monarchy will
succeed where the chamber of deputies